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As the World Wide Web's landscape has evolved from the days of multimedia-void static HMTL pages, the need for a dynamic interactive medium for Web applications has become apparent. Adobe Flash, as many developers know, is the most widely distributed, capable technology for achieving this new Internet medium.

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craig commented on the 20 May 2006

There are points in this article that are inaccurate. I could be wrong, but my understanding of ACtionScript is that it is really similar to Javascript. Javascript, ActionScript and C# all do have that similar c-based syntax, but that is where the similarity ends. Where C# and Java are class based, object-oriented, strongly typed compiled languages, Javascript and actionscript are loosely typed, prototype based, languages. C# and Java are similar, but neither are very similar to ActionScript or Javascript. In fact, Javascript's name was made to sound like Java for marketing reasons only -- its philosophical underpinnings and practical usage is actually quite different. Its been a while since I did Flash development but I understood ActionScript to be more similar to Javascript. For example, does ActionScript have inheritence or interfaces? Is it strongly typed? Do you create classes? I think the answer to all these questions is "NO".

Secondly, JScript is NOT the .NET version of Java. That's J#. J# has a very similar syntax and API to Java and it Microsoft's attempt to make porting Java programs to .NET easier. JScript on the other hand, is the Microsoft version of Javascript and is not widely used. You can use it in .NET on the server, or on the IE browser as a client side replacement for Javascript.

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